 this was the team that you open up the season with down in Washington DC how do you feel your team has progressed since that opening game to where you are today I think we did a bad game in the first game this season haven't said that we shouldn't lose the game but we need to do different things better and more different today than we did up in the open Washington so we have some really good games coming into this game but is a new game and Washington is improving as well so it's gonna be tough Ronnie is there something specifically that you've wanted to work on with this team were nine or ten games into the season now but something specifically that you are working hard at the trading ground that you want to see today against Washington DC I think you see a lot of the things against Atlanta I think it was a step back against New England the first half there was to open I think we want to work hard to get as a team a very compact win the ball as high as possible open the pitch and we do that now it's about kill people keep kill teams off when you get opportunity when you are in the last order the pitch inside the 18-yard box to create the overload take advantage of the overload and of course execute the chances we get if we do that then we're gonna be a very hard team to beat to beat Ronnie DC is a team that hasn't scored a lot they only have nine goals in the ten games this season but they also haven't given up a lot especially recently they've gone three and a half games without allowing a goal what do you think is the key to break down this team first of all as I said that we need to be the best we can be and they're a good team they have been a little bit like us little more lucky or or not good enough in the final situation they should have scored more goals than have done so so for us it's we know they're gonna come out with a lot of tempo they're pressing high it's about finding the spaces where we are we know where are then getting overload move the ball it's very hot today as well so to keep the ball gonna be important and when we defend we have to do it together so we get a compact good game with small spaces for them to play in and then if we do that they will do technically mistakes and we can take down counterattacks as well. Gaffer I'm just wondering after last season how difficult it was the frustration from the players the frustration from yourself and us obviously no fans in attendance but it was a difficult year all around for most people out there is there something that you have taken away from that season that you've tried to maybe implement in this season that you've added to your own coaching style I mean maybe it's obviously dealing with international culture here I know you dealt with also at Glasgow Celtic but here in New York and here Major League Soccer it's a quite unique league. It is and you know you learn all the time when you jump on new projects and you take chances in life and I've done a lot of chances the last 15 years and you know that's that's make you to grow and you also have to deal with hard times but I feel now very comfortable in a way that I'm confident in what I'm doing I feel home here I feel safe and I have fun and these things is important and that shines into the players as well that's what I want them to feel you know to feel very secure in what you're doing and safe here and at the same time we have to have a lot of fun if we do that then we get the best out of our players and they develop all the time and then with the potential we have you're gonna be a better and better team and I think we have approved a lot and we're gonna keep on working. Ronnie you mentioned the heat and I know there's a whole formula with the temperature the humidity and all the determinant if there's a hydration break I'm going with the very scientific approach it just feels really hot right now does that change your tactics at the start of a match knowing that midway through the half you're gonna get a little bit of a break? Yeah we don't change in the tactics but you have to have aware of that if you start to run one and all over the pitch we're gonna be empty before it starts and that's you have to do everything together you have to keep the ball more than you normally do if not sometimes you have to sit really lower and let them play so we don't open up as I said and get big big spaces all over the pitch then it's gonna be tough so I know the players I played a lot of games in this kind of heat so they are experienced in that way as well but we are ready we know what we're gonna do and then I'm looking forward to the game and hopefully we do it in a good way and get three points and put ourselves in a really good position in the